Facebook has it !
When Writing with an RTL language the ticker goes to the other way which gives a very intuitive experience.
I need this for my community because we are bilingual.
Thanks Discourse .. Love
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The discussion revolves around implementing automatic text direction detection in Discourse based on the content itself, similar to Facebook’s behavior. Users Aymane_Shuichi and Aymane_Shuichi highlight the need for this feature, referencing a Facebook example and suggesting a solution using the dir="auto" HTML5 attribute. ibnesayeed points to an older topic on RTL support, while codinghorror encourages contributors to submit a pull request. hnaseri and hnaseri note the lack of updates and demonstrate that dir="auto" works in most cases, though it fails with <p> tags, requiring <div> tags instead. rassilon1963 confirms the issue persists, especially in mixed-language contexts, and shows that the problem is specific to English forums where Hebrew content is posted, as Hebrew locales handle directionality correctly. sam and sam discuss the issue’s context and confirm it’s mainly a problem in bilingual environments.
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@codinghorror, Hi Jeff, do you think this is something we can have in the short term ?
Have a look at an old topic here about RTL support.
https://meta.discourse.org/t/rtl-support/1784
There is a library that automatically sets the direction of each paragraph based on the content.
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Sure, submit a pull request with the work if you want it. This is how open source works.
Is there any update for this feature? I desperately need it.
Even if there is a button to change direction of text, when we write english/arabic/persian, would be great.
I just added pr-welcome on this, hopefully a bilingual developer looking for a contribution will look at this one day.
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I just found that there is an html5 tag dir=auto that simply works in most situations.
For example I wrote this html
<html>
<body>
<p dir="auto">Write this جمله چپ به راست text left-to-right!</p>
<p dir="auto">این RTL sentence جمله را از راست به چپ بنویس</p>
</body>
</html>
And pasted it in a simple html editor and it works perfectly fine
Could we use the same thing in discourse @sam?
btw I tried dir="auto" with firebug on <p> tags in discourse. However it didn’t do anything. I don’t know why.
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수년이 지났지만 여전히 이 문제가 남아 있습니다. 게시물이 완전히 RTL(오른쪽에서 왼쪽으로 읽는) 언어로 작성되어도 자동으로 정렬되지 않습니다.
(이것은 에디터 화면이며, 오른쪽의 미리보기는 최종 결과물을 정확히 보여줍니다)
유일하게 작동하는 해결책은
<div dir="auto"> 태그를 추가하는 것입니다. @hnaseri가 지적했듯이 <p> 태그는 작동하지 않으며, <dir> 태그만 작동합니다.
솔직히 말해, 이것은 매우 실망스럽습니다. 사용자가 <div dir="auto"> 태그를 추가하도록 요구하는 것보다 더 나은 방법이 분명 있을 것입니다. 사실 이는 충분한 해결책이 아닙니다. 왜냐하면 div를 열기만 하고 닫지 않으면 나머지 텍스트가 단락별로 정렬되는 대신, 첫 번째 줄의 방향으로 강제로 정렬되기 때문입니다. 모든 단락 앞에 <div dir="auto"> 태그를 추가해야 한다는 것은 진정한 해결책이라고 보기 어렵습니다.
